The NFL Draft brings about crazy selections sometimes, even if they only make sense after doing some digging. On the surface, the Chiefs don’t need a quarterback because they already have Alex Smith but with contract negotiations going slowly, the Chiefs ended up drafting a quarterback in the fifth round to back him up and eventually replace him.
That quarterback ended up being Aaron Murray from Georgia, a guy many thought would have been off the board long before the 163rd pick in the draft.
Murray’s election then sparked the Cincinnati Bengals to draft A.J. McCarron with the next pick, thus starting run on quarterbacks in the middle round of the draft.
But while McCarron is off to Cincinnati, the Chiefs clearly got the better of the two prospects and now have a maximum arm strength quarterback to learn from Andy Reid and Alex Smith and hopefully develop into a franchise guy.